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dc.contributor.authorFransson, Joel
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T12:27:52Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T12:27:52Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-08
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2077/58600
dc.description.abstractThis essay reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Word for World is Forest to explore whether there is a connection between Cartesian dualism, allegorical reading, and environmentalist thought. To answer this the essay employs the philosophy and theoretical writings of Timothy Morton, namely The Ecological Thought and Ecology Without Nature. The method used is a close reading of the novel and the critical texts concerned with it. The dissertation shows how a static and unchanging understanding, wether of concepts, ideas, or people can lead to a damaging power relationship, and how this can be connected to René Descartes through early ecocriticism, environmental discourse and allegorical readings. The dissertation also synthesizes a way to move beyond an allegorical and environmentalist reading, to instead become ecological reading.sv
dc.language.isoengsv
dc.relation.ispartofserieskandidatuppsats Engelskasv
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSPL 2018-057sv
dc.subjectecologysv
dc.subjectnaturesv
dc.subjectallegorysv
dc.subjectdualismsv
dc.titleEcology From Within: Ecocriticism and Allegory in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forestsv
dc.typeText
dc.setspec.uppsokHumanitiesTheology
dc.type.uppsokM2
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Gothenburg/Department of Languages and Literatureseng
dc.contributor.departmentGöteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerswe
dc.type.degreeStudent essay


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